Water-closet.



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WATER CLOSET.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 4. 19l5.

1L tfimfimo Patented Oct; 24,1916.

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Specification of Letters Patent 1 Patented nlet. 2%, ilfi ilti.

Application filed September i, 1915. sermine. canoe.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, l/VALTER J. Mmns, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and us eful Improvements in di ator-Closets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates more particularly to water closets and their connection with the soil pipes.

()ne of the principal objects of the invention is to provide a closet having a detachable base forming a part of the closet which is so constructed that it is readily attachable to.or detachable from the rest of the closet and which is adapted to permit a perfect gas tight connection to be made'between the closet bowl and the soil pipe and at a point always accessible when the base is detached either for inspection or the making or breaking of the soil pipe connection thus eflectually overcoming all liability of the sewer gas escaping into the room and avoiding the necessity of using connecting means which is liable to deteriorate, as gaskets, etc., as well as other objections incident to devices of this kind as ordinarily constructed.

Another object of the invention is to provide simple and efiicient means whereby an absolutely gas tight connection between the closet and the soil pipe may be made above the floor without in any way destroying the effectiveness or detracting from the general appearance of devices of this kind.

Other objects are to provide a detachable base which may be made to conform to closets adapted for attachment to floors, walls, etc.; to provide a joint which permits the use of metal to metal, and which may be connected to or disconnected at any time; to provide means whereby the closet when finished may be of the usual height; and to provide a closet that is absolutely sanitary above the floor.

A further object of the invention is to pro vide a closet in which the base is detachable so as to overcomc and do away with cracked closet lmsesallowing the escape of sewer gas as is often the case with closets as heretofore constructed.

With these and other objects in view, the invention will be hereinafter more particularly described, with reference to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and will then be pointed out in through the base, taken on the line IV-JV of Fig. 2.

The closet bowl or body 10 may be of the usual construction and may be of any desired form. The lower part 11 of the closet body is free of the usual base and is adapted to be supported by feet 13 above the floor .line 12 a suitable distance corresponding to the ordinary height of the base of devices of this kind. The feet 13 may be arranged in any desired location and made of any suitable number and in some instances may be entirely dispensed with if desired, and may be made of the same material as the closet body or independent thereof and of metal or any other suitable material.

At the rear of the closet body or at any other portion thereof is the usual outlet At the lower part of this outlet may be arranged a metal nipple 15 which may be threaded so as to engage a threaded portion of the closet body 11 or otherwise held therein. The lower part of the nipple 15 may be beveled, as at 16, to provide a seat for a similarly beveled end 17 of a soil pipe 18 or an extension of the soil pipe. The soil pipe 18 is adapted to extend above the floor line 12 and make a gas tight joint with the seat 16 of the nipple lii. The upper end of the connection 18lhas a shoulder 11), and a con lin nut 20 en a es the threaded end of a D n the nipple 15 and rigidly holds the pipe 18 to said nipple with an absolutely gas tight joint and permits the connection with the closet to be readily made or broken as desired.

It will be evident that by having the closet body entirely open under the same and above the floor line, and the joint or connection located in this space between the closet and the soil pipe above the floor line, said connection is readily accessible to permit the coupling 20 to be attached to or detached from the closet .and permits inspection and testing so that any defect in the joint or connection may receive proper attention.

span the rear foot or leg 13. 30 18 also cut away at 28 to span the front foot or leg 13. Each of the members 22 and 23 5 joints or connections are unsanitary, leaky and allow sewer gas to pass into rooms and under the ordinary construction in connecting closets with the soil pipe by the use of putty, rubber gaskets, plaster Paris, paraflin,

etc., and their liability to deteriorate and by reason of this fact and of the inaccessibility of the joint or connection, leaks often occur.

To support the closet body and to provide a finish for the closet (the feet 13 serving 15-primarily as a temporary supporting means for inspecting purposes), and to provide means serving as a finish for the closet to retain the same at the usual height, 1 provide a. detachable separable base 21. This base as shown comprises two parts 22 and 23, Each part may have projecting lugs 2% in which are openings 25, through which bolts may pass to secure the base to thetloor. -Each member of the base is cut away t 26 to providea substantially annular opening when placed together to fit about the joint or connection between the closet and the soil pipe and also with a cut-away part 27 to Each member of'the detachable base is provided. with a projecting lug or lip 29. This lip or projecting part 29 may extend the entire height of the base or only a part of the heightof said base and is intended to form a finish for the members at the forward and rear portions thereof, one of said lugs 2i) projecting from the member 22 of the base and the other 40 lug projecting from the member 23 of the base.

The base as will be evident may be readily removed from the closet body both in making the joint with the soil pipeor for inspection purposes and when the joint is complete the base may be placed in position by moving the two members and 23 toward each other as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, so that the closet is properly supported and a finish is suitably made while the joint or connection above the floor line is entirely covered and protected.

It will be understood that while a particular form of joint and a very cfl'ective one is provided, other forms of joints or connections between the closet body aml the soil pipe may be employed or the location of the joint or connection changed, and that said invention is adapted for use with any of the lclosets as ordinarily constructed.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Lettcrs Patent:

1. A device of the character described, comprising a closet body, lcct adapted to permanently support said body above the floor line, a connection between the closet body and the soil pipe located above the floor line, and a detachable two-part base forming a support for the closet body and adapted to inclose the connection.

A deviceof the character described, comprising a closet body, l'ect supporting said body above the floor line, a soil pipe, and a connection between the body and the soil pipe. and two separable base members adapted to support the body above the floor line and inclose the connection, said base having lugs at the forward and rear ends to provide a finish and also having means for securing the base members to the floor.

This specification signed this 2nd day of September, A. D. 1915.

\VALTER J. MINNS. 

